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1 DAVID -B. ROBBi'NS & H. MINUSE.

Improvement in Weather-Strip for Doors.

No, 127,924 Pa tentedlunel1,1872.

WW/tneww. lmrem'oz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID B. ROBBINS AND HORATIO MINUSE, OF MILAN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS FOR DOORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,924, dated J une 11, 1872.

. is a full, clear, and complete description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of the same.

Figure 1 is a front view of the door and casin g, to which the weather-strip is applied. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the door, having applied thereto the weather-strip. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of a section of the door and strip. Fig. 4. is a detatched section.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

Specification.

The nature of this invention relates to a pcculiar mode or means of attaching a weatherstrip to doors, which means consists of a joint having a spring at or near each end of the strips. Said springs are inclosed in thimbles which are let into the wood, and which also form a hinge for the movement of the weatherstrip, thereby making a combined hinge and spring, the joint being so formed that it is a concave and convex union of the two parts in relation to each other, all of which is constructed and operated as follows:

In the drawing, Fig. 1, Arepresents the door,

of which B is the casing. To the bottom of the door is secured a cleat, O, the lower edge of which is grooved or concave, as shown in Fig. 3. To said cleat is attached, by the hinges l), the weather-strip E, which is held in its slanting relation to the door by the resiliency of the springs F, one at each end of the strip. Said springs are secured to the cleat and the weather-strip by thimbles G, in which the ends of the springs are inserted and secured, as

shown in Fig. 4. The thimbles are let into'the wood, as shown in Fig. 3, and therein secured by any appropriate means.

It will be observed, on examination of Fig.

3, that the lower sections of the hinges D referred to are fixed to the outside of the lower thimble G, whereas the upper sections of the hinges are fixed to the upper thimbles, thereby making a combination of the hinges and thimbles, as shown in Fig. 3.

On the side of the casing is a plate, H, Fig. 1, with which, on closing the door, the weatherstrip is brought in contact, and thereby depressed so as to bring the rubber fringe I down upon the floor when the door is shut, thereby preventing the wind and rain from drifting under it into the room or hall.

The advantage of the above-described attachment of the weather-strip to the door is that thehinges are lessliable to become clogged by snow or by frozen water than are the hinges ordinarily used for this purpose.

Rubber springs used in connection with weather-strips for doors are liable to decompose by the action of the weather upon them, but by the use of metal springs, as above described, this is avoided, as they are protected therefrom by the thimbles and weather-strip; also, the thimbles prevent the wood from being worn away by the springs. By forming the edge of the strip round, and the edge of the cleat to which it is attached with a corresponding hollow or groove in which it is fitted, a close joint is obtained, so that the wind, rain, and snow are effectually shutout.

Claim.

' What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The springs F, thimbles G G, and hinge D, in combination with the strip E and door piece or cleat 0 having a joint at a, constructed and arranged in' relation to each other, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

DAVID B. ROBBINS.

HORATIO MIN USE.

Witnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, A. F. CORNELL. 

